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Frank Harrist wrote:What if they didn't die out, but went "underground"?

Frank Harrist wrote:I'm not really convinced.You say there's no evidence, but there is evidence. People just don't accept it. Correct, there is no definitive proof, but many small things which point to the conclusion that there is something out there. There are a couple of good videos, the Patterson/Gimlin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ByWc5hTgBk film and the Freeman footage http://www.metacafe.com/watch/799471/fr ... t_footage/ which are compelling.

A few others are iffy. There have been countless tracks found in places where no one could possibly expect someone to be. Why hoax track deep in the woods where no one goes just on the off chance someone mught see them? And then there are the thousands of eyewitness accounts, some of which are pure fiction, some are mis-identification, but so many?

There has been DNA evidence found but nothing to compare it to so no way to classify it without a body.

No not convinced, but certainly curious.

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Steve: Tell me about how you wound up doing a DNA sequence analysis of what was allegedly a Sasquatch.

Coltman: Well! It was last summer—July—and I was watching the news and there was a Sasquatch sighting in the Yukon that had really sort of taken the imagination of the media. It was on the CBC, it was on television; and these people who had seen the Sasquatch over their backyard had actually found hair and footprints the next morning and they sent the hair to the regional biologist in the Yukon. I happened to know, I have done some work with biologists in Yukon before and I think one of the media asked them if they would be able to do a DNA test, but they didn't have the resources to do that. So, that evening I—on a whim almost—sent an e-mail and said just send that hair down to our lab here and we will test it for you because we do a lot of DNA work from hair and other kinds of samples. So, it was quite a straightforward thing for us to test and I though[t] well, kind of on a whim; and also maybe to help them out so that he could be absolutely certain that what it was and to satisfy curiosity of the public by we running this test on.

So, we tested it against that database to find out what it would match and this was something [where] you quite literally cut and paste the sequence into your browser on the Web and it will return with the best matches; and it came back with 100 percent matches to a bison. So, we were pretty sure we had a bison.

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...it came back with 100 percent matches to a bison. So, we were pretty sure we had a bison.